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School of Humanities Public Lecture
January 25, 2017 @ 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
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Valediction: The Conditions of the University
by Prof Rod Stoneman
with an introduction by Prof Timothy Emlyn Jones
Valediction: the Conditions of the University
Boy bitten by a Lizard, about 1594-5, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. Oil on Canvas, 66 x 49.5 cm.
An undergraduate in university in England during the 1970s, returning to tertiary education after work in the television and film industries with a university post in Ireland in 2003 – I offer this valedictory talk as a review of changing conditions of engagement: reflections on moments of rupture and continuity in a varied life of commitment, pleasure and “savage indignation”.
As for Caravaggio’s luscious painting – the apprehension of the boy, the lizard’s bite, the realisation of the glass vase – I have never been able to explain to myself the relation between them.